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With an avalanche of scholarship on the House, it can be tough to balance out coverage in a typical Congress course with appropriate readings on the “slow institution.”
Offering top-notch research geared to an undergraduate audience, Loomis' new edited volume represents a broad picture of the contemporary Senate and how it came to be. While addressing issues of delay, obstruction, and polarization in a variety of ways, the scholars in this collection are not proposing a reform agenda, but instead, explore the historical and political contexts for how difficult it can be to change a non-majoritarian, highly individualistic institution. Students will come away from these chapters with a much greater appreciation of the Senate's unique combination of tradition, precedent, and constitutional mandate.
A Half-Century of Bicameralism
A Half-Century of Bicameralism
Since 1960 many things in Congress have changed. But a surprising number have remained the same, although in somewhat different form. The House has undergone the largest number of alterations, some of which have been reversed by one party and restored by the other. These changes have principally involved the distribution or redistribution of power between party leaders and chairs of committees. Changes in the Senate have largely affected the procedures by which the Senate operates. And, in a manner characteristic of the Senate, many of those changes have come about informally or have been changes in application rather than the result either of formal modifications of party or chamber rules.
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